9. Crypto Scam?: A second lawsuit was filed this week against the organizers of cybercurrency technology project Tezos, an initiative that raised $232 million to issue a cryptocurrency that does not exist and fund development of a transaction system that has no clear end date, Reuters reported.

8. Crypto Rivals: New iterations of the cryptocurrency are multiplying as disagreements over bitcoin’s design persist and opportunities for making a quick buck prove hard to pass up, Bloomberg reports. The biggest offshoot, called bitcoin cash, appeared in August after a so-called hard fork in the bitcoin blockchain. That spinoff, currently valued at $18 billion, was followed by a less successful fork to create bitcoin gold in October, and now several other planned splits are in the works, the report states.

5. Russia-led Cyberattacks?: Russian hackers have targeted the UK energy network, telecoms and the media in the past year, according to The Telegraph in the UK. Multiple countries have been mulling legislation that would designate state-sponsored cyberattacks as acts of war…

4. Firewalls: Barracuda Networks has expanded the public cloud functionality for the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall. The updates support utility-based consumption and automated security controls for DevSecOps workflows. Not by coincidence, Barracuda will demonstrate the new capabilities at the Amazon AWS re:Invent conference later this month in Las Vegas.

2. Managed Security Services:VirtualArmour International Inc. has finalized a three year recurring revenue contract for the expansion of network and security managed services with an existing client in the retail services sector. The expanded contract has a total value of USD$650,000 over its term. The actual customer name was not disclosed…